Trump has put bullseyes on the backs of policemen. This is so outrageous especially when there was no response from the Law and Order party, the Republicans. If I were a member of the Secret Service, how could I be expected to take a bullet for Trump, a man who has absolutely no respect for our police or military? We must resist and fight this man every step of the way or else we are complicit.
Trump has put bullseyes on the backs of policemen. This is so outrageous especially when there was no response from the Law and Order party, the Republicans. If I were a member of the Secret Service, how could I be expected to take a bullet for Trump, a man who has absolutely no respect for our police or military? We must resist and fight this man every step of the way or else we are complicit.
The Heritage Foundation (who take credit for authorizing Project 2025) labeled their group as a “Think Tank” in order to sound intelligent. Let’s list every Corporation and every single contributing PROJECT 2025 author publicly and broadcast it on Substack for a daily advertisement of their Anti-Democratic recklessness that goes against the Constitution’s OATH OF OFFICE.
The Heritage Foundation, which is tax exempt as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization under the Internal Revenue Code, should lose its tax exempt status. I looked at a recent Heritage Foundation Form 990, which is the tax report 501(c)(3) organizations are required to file annually and learned this fact: of over $100,000,000 in gross revenues (exempt from taxation) Heritage Foundation spent over $60,000,000 on lobbying. 501(c)(3)s are enjoined to spend no more than an "insubstantial amount," usually interpreted to mean no more than 20 percent, of their gross income on activities like lobbying. Complaints about exempt organization improprieties can be filed using IRS Form 33909 (I think I remember the form number correctly but it can easily be found online). The form must be supported by evidence but the organization's Form 990 annual filings are public record and can be submitted to support a complaint. The Heritage Foundation should be put out of business
List these companies Publicly where? If you have the list try asking the “legacy” media to publish them, or even better get every local newspaper, ask AARP to run the list in its magazine etc. More importantly, explain what each company of the list does AND what may be its particular benefit by having supported Project 2025.
I've often thought that although print media is on the decline, I wish someone would start a magazine that would cover these governmental issues, and offer each side of the aisle perhaps 500 words to succinctly sum up their stance on it.
The Biden administration tried to get coverage, but it wasn't outrageous like Trump, so it seems that people thought he was asleep.
Remember the shooting at the Capitol in 1998? (I bet a lot of people have forgotten it.) TIME had in-depth coverage and even included diagrams of the incident.
Sadly, I saw some of the clip of the presser that Trump gave and regarding the California fires, he literally said they need to "turn the faucet on." (And as usual, the water is "beautiful". I stand by my theory he's in a stage of dementia where aphasia is starting to manifest, exemplified by his limited and repetitive vocabulary). I'd love to see an article that explains the history of the water systems; the implications of agriculture, politics and climate change; and information such as why you can't just "rake the forest".
Where? Is the question I am constantly asking. Where can MY voice be heard? I appreciate the advice of alternative media saying resist, resist, resist. I don't have a pulpit, I am not a legislator or even a lawyer...so how do I resist.
Mike Johnson says 'Republicans are not looking back' and OMB nominee Russell Vought, Project 2025 co-author, said 'certainly Trump's executive orders have nothing to do with Project 2025.' As if.
Lie Lie Lie is the Trump nominee MO. Smirk is the Trump nominee accessory du jour.
Watch Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse question the truculent Vought on executive orders (even Chair Lindsay Graham wanted an answer):
Vought is an amplifier of the unconstitutional unified executive theory - which proclaims that in his person the president is the executive branch. L'etat c'est moi. But Vought doesn't stop at the executive. He's also intent on castrating the legislative branch by cutting off Congress' power of the purse and giving it to Trump - through the unconstitutional theory of impoundment. Impoundment lets the executive freeze funds appropriated by Congress Impoundment of funds appropriated for Ukraine is part of what got Trump impeached the first time. He's at it again.
Freezing funds appropriated under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021.
During a 90-day review period, each agencies are to submit recommendations to both the Director of the National Economic Council (NEC) Kevin Hasett*( and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) RUSSELL VOUGHT Disbursements may resume only if deemed consistent with any adopted recommendations.
*Hassett is primarily an American Enterprise hack and Trump sycophant who coauthored the 1999 ' Dow 36,000', arguing that the stock market was about to have a massive swing upward and would reach 36,000 by 2004. In fact, the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, causing a massive decline in stock market prices. For 2 years the Dow hovered at about 2000. The Dow did not reach 36,000 until late 2021.
As a Trump advisor Hassett built a model that indicated that COVID-19 deaths would drop off to near zero by May 2020. Hassett's model contradicted known scientific assessments and in fact Covid deaths spiked between 2020 and 2022.
The Republican MO has been to lie since the 1920’s. The Republicans brought us the Great Depression and the Great Recession. They also brought us traitorous politicians like Nixon, and Reagan. The Republicans have REDMAPPED the country into this sh@tshow which has led to a criminal presidency. Harry Truman was right; the only good Republicans are pushing up daisies.”
Trump has now used his public office to create a private militia of domestic terrorists. And a tool for new recruitment.
Just as the Federalist Society Supreme Court put Trump above the law, Trump's Project 2025 executive branch will put Trump terrorists under the shield of government.
While the GOP legislature will give up its legislative authority and power of the purse to Russell Vought OMB unconstitutional impoundment - where Trump can just take funds appropriated by Congress through negotiation.
Of Note, Vivek Ramaswamy is out of DOGE... Elon Musk is now feuding with DJT over DJT's big A.I. Announcement of 'StarGate'.... We'll see if Elon gets ejected... The Pardons were apparently a Rash-Decision... Seems DJT has no patience... They were a Spur-Of-Moment Rash Decision... DJT has little Patience, DJT doesn't think through... Psychologists have said that DJT thinks of himself as a Cartoon SuperHero... His Advancing Dementia Is Not Helping....
His ego might think superhero but Donold is the embodiment of a supervillain Incessant rantings and hateful rhetoric to cause division and strife, seeming to take glee in inflicting pain and suffering on others, scheming, bilking, grifting, hell bent on destroying our Nation. Surrounding himself with sycophants and other equally malicious supervillains, like an actual Legion of Doom. Taking the form of a fascist regime with actual Nazis, like Elon the Ketamine Kid giving a 'sieg heil' salute--twice! or the Proud Boys & Oathkeepers as brownshirt shock troops...
Horhai... This is a Good Post... I just saw his Davos Speech... The Audience seemed Awestruck, Numb... Seems that they can't tell the Difference Between DJT's Lies, and Delusions...
Hello BitchyBitchyBitchy... I agree besides sounding Drugged, his Ignorance was Breathtaking, and this was 'Reading' off a Teleprompter!!!... The 'Atlantic' reported today that DJT also wants to take the Scandinavian Countries as well as Canada, and Greenland... DJT is on an Insane Death Trip...
Actually signing the pardons may have been rash but he touted his intention to pardon all these criminals that he called “political prisoners “ for months while campaigning. Now he has really unleashed criminals out onto our streets.
Colette, on a better note, one of them from my own state of NH, was given jail time and a 3-year probation for entering the Capitol and stealing the Senate book of procedure. (He said he was drinking during the event.) However, he says that he shouldn't have been pardoned: that what he did was wrong and he deserved the punishment. How many others were contrite? Doubtful that there are more than a handful.
Absolutely, Mike, and all the cops and other LEOs who stood behind him, both literally and figuratively, should be ashamed of themselves if they are at all surprised.
I don't think anything about the pardons was rash. He said he'd do it. He did it. Afterall, he just freed his army. This is how they begin to prepare for civil war.
De Wine gave Jon Husted Vance’s senate seat, even though Ramaswamy wanted it, and now Ramaswamy wants to run for governor since De Wine is term limited from running again. Unfortunately we have plenty of other obnoxious potential candidates. Ramaswamy would perhaps be too obnoxious for even the GQP to consider him.
My hope is, Swarmy is the GOP pick in '26. Even in The Most Corrupt State of Ohio, he is a hated POS, and it should open the door for Dr. Amy Acton to be elected. And, as an added bonus, we'll also have the honor of voting WhoSaid out of the Senate, just before he's busted for corruption, and takes the cell next to former Speaker Householder.
Won't Sherrod Brown run in 26 to regain a Democratic Ohio Senate seat? He was always extremely popular in Ohio. I love women candidates but I would think Brown has the best shot at defeating someone like Swarmy
He hasn't said anything as of yet, so I don't know. I personally would like to see either him or Tim Ryan run against WhoSaid for the Senate seat. Of course, this IS Ohio, and trying to find logic here is like trying to find a whale in Lake Erie! But I'm all in with Dr. Acton for Gov!
Apache ‘Vivek Ramaswamy is out of DOGE’ sounds like a 1948s Western movie.
The Orange Orangutan’s ‘Spur-of-the-moment-rash-decision’ is indicative of his AR 15 irresponsible shooting 23 round clips. Lot of blood on the floor.
In the Mr. Bitcoin vs. MUSKrat bromance, I actually support Musk’s demand that the Mars flight be given higher priority than returning to the moon for the first time since 1972.
My one requirement is that Musk be on the first Mars flight (3 year outward trip with absolutely no certainty of return).
Trust me, Vance is more intelligent and dangerous than Trump. He believes in Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel’s obnoxiously anti democratic and authoritarian social philosophies, and Thiel bought Vance his Senate seat in Ohio.
So true, listen to Curtis on the NYT Daily podcast last week for a taste… my vote, women’s votes and Black votes done to start. Then the king takes over, no more elections. Sound like anything tRump mentioned during a rally?
You mean James Donald Bowman? (After all, it's in keeping with the MAGA viewpoint that a person should not be allowed to decide for themselves how they should be called, so he should be stuck with his originally given name.)
Apache, are you at all surprised that the darker skinned (and arguably the smarter and more self made billionaire) of the two is the one that gets ousted?
Not defending Ramaswamy, it just crossed my mind.
Let's see if the current first lady has the same rapport with Vance's wife as Jill and Michelle had. Doubt it.
lin*, as to your last paragraph, I suspect there's going to be pushback by Congress. A lot, if not most, of the IRA and CHIPS money has gone/is going to red states
The Secret Service is complicit with him. As is Fools & Buffoons, Inc., as I used to call them 50 years ago. I'm sure they'll be quite happy to start COINTELPRO over again, at his request.
COINTELPRO was an FBI operation directed by Hoover, and we only know about it because some people burglarized the FBI office in Media, PA., and they disclosed the information to a press that was then unafraid to disclose it. I could definitely see Kash Patel running an operation like that. The FBI directors are limited to 10 year terms because no one wants another FBI director like Hoover.
Not agents out in the field whose positions will be shared with Putin who would never be so foolish as to reveal the positions of his agents, or North Korea, or China, or Iran.
Sorry to say Laurie but, if Ca$h Patel is confirmed as FBI director, he is going to employ everyone of them to serve as stormtroopers against his " enemy list ".
My Proud Boy neighbor down the road, who literally "went postal" 30 years ago at a USPS job, and is on disability and is not allowed to have guns or ammunition, has both. He has been doing target practice in his back woods. What will he be hunting?
I'd suggest reporting him but wonder if it may fall on deaf ears, or he will exact revenge on his neighbors. 😱 And what a fricken scary thought that is.
The same argument about J6 pardoned convicts with respect to the Secret Service would apply to the FBI. It's a fun meme but I can't see it having any basis in reality.
I have to believe that even in a Trump administration, anyone with a criminal conviction, even if pardoned, wouldn't be able to get close to being assigned to the Secret Service.
Perhaps not, Jon, but they'll be given assignments to intimidate protesters at demonstrations, the homes of Congresspeople who don't comply with Hair Furor, and so on.
The Policemen helped to put this bullseye on their backs by endorsing and presumably voting for Trump. They got what they asked for. Of course the rest of us got it too. As for Law and Order, just because they claim it does not make the Republicans the party of Law and Order. In fact, since the Republican party is also the party of lies, what they say tends to patently not be true except when they tell us they want to create terrible laws and policies.
Trump is in the presidency for 2 reasons. Second is to avoid prison, first is to make himself the richest man in the world by openly monetizing the role, and tying himself to dark monies there is going to be no accounting for his wealth from his grifting presidency. I believe he wants to surpass Musk and Putin for wealth, and perhaps to become the first trillionaire.
How do we protect ourselves? Not just at home with militias being given carte blanche to commit violent crimes and murder. What will happen with air travel? Why fire the head of TSA? How will that effect security? Will this person be replaced with someone who wants to change procedures? Trump does not have to worry about the safety of planes he flies in because he and his family will all be flying in private planes.
Spot on, Linda. Another thing that really concerns me is his throttling of medical research and communications to the public about emerging health threats such as Avian Flu and whatever else is coming at us (viral evolution stops for nobody/nothing.)
I'm further concerned about funding for research into human diseases such as cancer. My eldest son was diagnosed nearly 3 years ago with colorectal cancer which has spread to his liver 😪😪😪 and has been participating in clinical trials. The felons actions may not further harm my son, but might deny future cancer patients potentially life-saving cures.
Doug, I am so sorry about your son. That is really hard. I totally agree with you that the health piece of it is concerning. From medical research which we have heard is largely being shut down, to huge implications for the health of all Americans, to the lack of information about diseases.
We read that Georgia was just going to post Avian flu results yesterday but their website are already shut down of the Centers for Disease Control. Also, the website have been scrubbed of information.
In Project 2025 they say that Health and Human Services will become The Department of Life, and pretty much be concerned with policing women's reproduction, and will I fear be tied to the criminal justice system in either you breed against your will, you abstain from sex or you end up in prison, or get the death penalty. That would be a way to get rid of a gender that is clearly hated by this administration.
If they cancel childhood vaccinations I would be moving to another country with young children where these vaccines are still considered normal. It is going to be catastrophic if Polio returns. Plus, as you rightly point out there can be all sorts of new viruses up the turnpike and I would not want to be absent any research into controlling or curing. Again we see the huge effects of the Christian Nationalists, who are setting us up for seeing illness as God's punishment. It is truly unfortunate.
Yep. Ironically, you're going to have to live by the creep's own words: "You're gonna have to fight like hell, or you're not gonna have a country anymore." By next week, Xitter and Facebook will be the official government communication tools, and every medium that doesn't say nice things about Donny-boy will be forbidden. Journalists who publish nasty things about him can expect the Proud Boys on their door steps. Honestly, I really fear for Professor Richardson's life (amongst others)...
Dutch, I fear for us all, one way or another. But threats to the outspoken among us will be chilling. It's the autocratic way of controlling truth and dissent.
It's what Nazis do. But if you compared Trump to Hitler before the election it was always noooo, that's not fair, he isn't like Hitler, we should give him a chance, etc etc (looking sideways at Ricky Return-to-Sender here). Well, here we are. Good luck, Trump voters, let's hope HE gives YOU a chance (probably not).
Yeah, I already returned to Mr. Sender. I enjoy having exchanges with people whose opinion I may not share, but some folks are time wasters — there are some tools and fools out there.
Honestly, anyone that is a member of the Secret Service, FBI, Military, US Government, Capital Police or general PD that supported and voted for Trump knew what they were getting. I am so tired of hearing that these people are surprised, or now they want to speak out. Trump told us all exactly who he was going to be. They just all thought they were Trump whisperers, and we were exaggerating because their perceived social grievances matter more than democracy and rule of law. The Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Trump because he supports unlimited qualified immunity and wants to let them have carte blanche as a backlash to the BLM movement and holding officers accountable. They viewed the tradeoff worth it, they don't get to complain now, I don't want to hear it.
I only have sympathy for Jackson Reffitt and the others like him, who turned in these nutjobs, some of whom may have been family or friends. Their life may be at risk, all of these white supremacists, extremists and domestic terrorists are now going to feel enabled and supported by Trump, and rest assured they are standing by and looking forward to committing more crimes to support him. Which is kind of hilarious because if he wanted to, he could have pardoned them before he left his first term, but he didn't. He has no shame and is more emboldened than he was before.
This just further proves as well that Presidential Pardon power is bullshit and we should work towards a constitutional amendment to get rid of it. Finally, Merrick Garland really failed us, additionally the fact that conservative news outlets, social media outlets and party members aren't speaking out over the fact that the leader of the Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes who wanted to incite a civil war was just casually meeting with lawmakers is just crazy to me. These are not people who mean well or are wanting to engage in being responsible, they want to tear the system down and replace with a social hierarchy built around white supremacy and money. I refuse to lose my country to these bigots.
There are many in law enforcement who individually or as a group through their organizations supported and still support him and the MAGA movement. My brother was a patrolman in the NYPD in the 1970’s .And resigned in disgust after several years of having to deal with his fellow officers who behaved like thugs more interested in the power and their pocket books. He left to work for the US Border Patrol where the agents were more professional and empathic in their duties. There were far fewer agents then but the border was more secure and not so politicized.
Trump has put bullseyes on the backs of policemen. This is so outrageous especially when there was no response from the Law and Order party, the Republicans. If I were a member of the Secret Service, how could I be expected to take a bullet for Trump, a man who has absolutely no respect for our police or military? We must resist and fight this man every step of the way or else we are complicit.
The Heritage Foundation (who take credit for authorizing Project 2025) labeled their group as a “Think Tank” in order to sound intelligent. Let’s list every Corporation and every single contributing PROJECT 2025 author publicly and broadcast it on Substack for a daily advertisement of their Anti-Democratic recklessness that goes against the Constitution’s OATH OF OFFICE.
The Heritage Foundation, which is tax exempt as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization under the Internal Revenue Code, should lose its tax exempt status. I looked at a recent Heritage Foundation Form 990, which is the tax report 501(c)(3) organizations are required to file annually and learned this fact: of over $100,000,000 in gross revenues (exempt from taxation) Heritage Foundation spent over $60,000,000 on lobbying. 501(c)(3)s are enjoined to spend no more than an "insubstantial amount," usually interpreted to mean no more than 20 percent, of their gross income on activities like lobbying. Complaints about exempt organization improprieties can be filed using IRS Form 33909 (I think I remember the form number correctly but it can easily be found online). The form must be supported by evidence but the organization's Form 990 annual filings are public record and can be submitted to support a complaint. The Heritage Foundation should be put out of business
They wouldn't be put out of business, they would just lose their tax exemption. They probably would have to pay some back taxes too.
List these companies Publicly where? If you have the list try asking the “legacy” media to publish them, or even better get every local newspaper, ask AARP to run the list in its magazine etc. More importantly, explain what each company of the list does AND what may be its particular benefit by having supported Project 2025.
The AARP is non-partisan.
I've often thought that although print media is on the decline, I wish someone would start a magazine that would cover these governmental issues, and offer each side of the aisle perhaps 500 words to succinctly sum up their stance on it.
The Biden administration tried to get coverage, but it wasn't outrageous like Trump, so it seems that people thought he was asleep.
Remember the shooting at the Capitol in 1998? (I bet a lot of people have forgotten it.) TIME had in-depth coverage and even included diagrams of the incident.
Sadly, I saw some of the clip of the presser that Trump gave and regarding the California fires, he literally said they need to "turn the faucet on." (And as usual, the water is "beautiful". I stand by my theory he's in a stage of dementia where aphasia is starting to manifest, exemplified by his limited and repetitive vocabulary). I'd love to see an article that explains the history of the water systems; the implications of agriculture, politics and climate change; and information such as why you can't just "rake the forest".
Where? Is the question I am constantly asking. Where can MY voice be heard? I appreciate the advice of alternative media saying resist, resist, resist. I don't have a pulpit, I am not a legislator or even a lawyer...so how do I resist.
Mike Johnson says 'Republicans are not looking back' and OMB nominee Russell Vought, Project 2025 co-author, said 'certainly Trump's executive orders have nothing to do with Project 2025.' As if.
Lie Lie Lie is the Trump nominee MO. Smirk is the Trump nominee accessory du jour.
Watch Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse question the truculent Vought on executive orders (even Chair Lindsay Graham wanted an answer):
https://youtu.be/I5eJaZafSMQ?si=uPYWAJGkUM0FAhpz
Watch Sen. Patty Murray question the truculent Vought on impoundment:
https://youtu.be/Qv_lF0q7rbI?si=D5w1W85om6tWD80q
Vought is an amplifier of the unconstitutional unified executive theory - which proclaims that in his person the president is the executive branch. L'etat c'est moi. But Vought doesn't stop at the executive. He's also intent on castrating the legislative branch by cutting off Congress' power of the purse and giving it to Trump - through the unconstitutional theory of impoundment. Impoundment lets the executive freeze funds appropriated by Congress Impoundment of funds appropriated for Ukraine is part of what got Trump impeached the first time. He's at it again.
Freezing funds appropriated under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021.
During a 90-day review period, each agencies are to submit recommendations to both the Director of the National Economic Council (NEC) Kevin Hasett*( and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) RUSSELL VOUGHT Disbursements may resume only if deemed consistent with any adopted recommendations.
*Hassett is primarily an American Enterprise hack and Trump sycophant who coauthored the 1999 ' Dow 36,000', arguing that the stock market was about to have a massive swing upward and would reach 36,000 by 2004. In fact, the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, causing a massive decline in stock market prices. For 2 years the Dow hovered at about 2000. The Dow did not reach 36,000 until late 2021.
As a Trump advisor Hassett built a model that indicated that COVID-19 deaths would drop off to near zero by May 2020. Hassett's model contradicted known scientific assessments and in fact Covid deaths spiked between 2020 and 2022.
The Republican MO has been to lie since the 1920’s. The Republicans brought us the Great Depression and the Great Recession. They also brought us traitorous politicians like Nixon, and Reagan. The Republicans have REDMAPPED the country into this sh@tshow which has led to a criminal presidency. Harry Truman was right; the only good Republicans are pushing up daisies.”
lin• -- Thanks so much for your two YouTube links! Senator Whitehouse is incredible, as always.
Trump has now used his public office to create a private militia of domestic terrorists. And a tool for new recruitment.
Just as the Federalist Society Supreme Court put Trump above the law, Trump's Project 2025 executive branch will put Trump terrorists under the shield of government.
While the GOP legislature will give up its legislative authority and power of the purse to Russell Vought OMB unconstitutional impoundment - where Trump can just take funds appropriated by Congress through negotiation.
Of Note, Vivek Ramaswamy is out of DOGE... Elon Musk is now feuding with DJT over DJT's big A.I. Announcement of 'StarGate'.... We'll see if Elon gets ejected... The Pardons were apparently a Rash-Decision... Seems DJT has no patience... They were a Spur-Of-Moment Rash Decision... DJT has little Patience, DJT doesn't think through... Psychologists have said that DJT thinks of himself as a Cartoon SuperHero... His Advancing Dementia Is Not Helping....
His ego might think superhero but Donold is the embodiment of a supervillain Incessant rantings and hateful rhetoric to cause division and strife, seeming to take glee in inflicting pain and suffering on others, scheming, bilking, grifting, hell bent on destroying our Nation. Surrounding himself with sycophants and other equally malicious supervillains, like an actual Legion of Doom. Taking the form of a fascist regime with actual Nazis, like Elon the Ketamine Kid giving a 'sieg heil' salute--twice! or the Proud Boys & Oathkeepers as brownshirt shock troops...
Horhai... This is a Good Post... I just saw his Davos Speech... The Audience seemed Awestruck, Numb... Seems that they can't tell the Difference Between DJT's Lies, and Delusions...
Thanks Apache!
Not sure if Donold can even tell the difference anymore, just a steady onslaught of lies and delusion.
Or maybe dumbstruck....
I just saw a brief except and thought that Trump almost sounded drugged.
Hello BitchyBitchyBitchy... I agree besides sounding Drugged, his Ignorance was Breathtaking, and this was 'Reading' off a Teleprompter!!!... The 'Atlantic' reported today that DJT also wants to take the Scandinavian Countries as well as Canada, and Greenland... DJT is on an Insane Death Trip...
Actually signing the pardons may have been rash but he touted his intention to pardon all these criminals that he called “political prisoners “ for months while campaigning. Now he has really unleashed criminals out onto our streets.
Colette, on a better note, one of them from my own state of NH, was given jail time and a 3-year probation for entering the Capitol and stealing the Senate book of procedure. (He said he was drinking during the event.) However, he says that he shouldn't have been pardoned: that what he did was wrong and he deserved the punishment. How many others were contrite? Doubtful that there are more than a handful.
That wasn't a warning, about those "hundreds of criminals and murderers roaming our streets", it was a promise.
Absolutely, Mike, and all the cops and other LEOs who stood behind him, both literally and figuratively, should be ashamed of themselves if they are at all surprised.
If they are surprised they must be pathologically naive...
I don't think anything about the pardons was rash. He said he'd do it. He did it. Afterall, he just freed his army. This is how they begin to prepare for civil war.
De Wine gave Jon Husted Vance’s senate seat, even though Ramaswamy wanted it, and now Ramaswamy wants to run for governor since De Wine is term limited from running again. Unfortunately we have plenty of other obnoxious potential candidates. Ramaswamy would perhaps be too obnoxious for even the GQP to consider him.
My hope is, Swarmy is the GOP pick in '26. Even in The Most Corrupt State of Ohio, he is a hated POS, and it should open the door for Dr. Amy Acton to be elected. And, as an added bonus, we'll also have the honor of voting WhoSaid out of the Senate, just before he's busted for corruption, and takes the cell next to former Speaker Householder.
Won't Sherrod Brown run in 26 to regain a Democratic Ohio Senate seat? He was always extremely popular in Ohio. I love women candidates but I would think Brown has the best shot at defeating someone like Swarmy
He hasn't said anything as of yet, so I don't know. I personally would like to see either him or Tim Ryan run against WhoSaid for the Senate seat. Of course, this IS Ohio, and trying to find logic here is like trying to find a whale in Lake Erie! But I'm all in with Dr. Acton for Gov!
Apache ‘Vivek Ramaswamy is out of DOGE’ sounds like a 1948s Western movie.
The Orange Orangutan’s ‘Spur-of-the-moment-rash-decision’ is indicative of his AR 15 irresponsible shooting 23 round clips. Lot of blood on the floor.
In the Mr. Bitcoin vs. MUSKrat bromance, I actually support Musk’s demand that the Mars flight be given higher priority than returning to the moon for the first time since 1972.
My one requirement is that Musk be on the first Mars flight (3 year outward trip with absolutely no certainty of return).
James David Vance is looking better each day.
Trust me, Vance is more intelligent and dangerous than Trump. He believes in Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel’s obnoxiously anti democratic and authoritarian social philosophies, and Thiel bought Vance his Senate seat in Ohio.
So true, listen to Curtis on the NYT Daily podcast last week for a taste… my vote, women’s votes and Black votes done to start. Then the king takes over, no more elections. Sound like anything tRump mentioned during a rally?
We Are Not In A Good Place... It has been said, that the Creator Protects Babes, And The United States...
Not in the least. He is not impulsive; he is calculating and well-managed.
You mean James Donald Bowman? (After all, it's in keeping with the MAGA viewpoint that a person should not be allowed to decide for themselves how they should be called, so he should be stuck with his originally given name.)
Apache, are you at all surprised that the darker skinned (and arguably the smarter and more self made billionaire) of the two is the one that gets ousted?
Not defending Ramaswamy, it just crossed my mind.
Let's see if the current first lady has the same rapport with Vance's wife as Jill and Michelle had. Doubt it.
Ramaswamy is still a turd, regardless of his ethnicity.
Super-Hero or Super-Villain? Super-Villains are cruel and vain. Heroes have better manners.
DJT refuses to do the work! He just signs orders.
😵🤯😡
lin*, as to your last paragraph, I suspect there's going to be pushback by Congress. A lot, if not most, of the IRA and CHIPS money has gone/is going to red states
Hope you’re right!
Elizabeth, I heard even Rand Paul is saying that Congress has control of the purse strings.
Of course, if any the Secret Service agents resign, Trump will replace them w/ Proud Boys.
The Secret Service is complicit with him. As is Fools & Buffoons, Inc., as I used to call them 50 years ago. I'm sure they'll be quite happy to start COINTELPRO over again, at his request.
Remember their deleted texts after Jan 6th?
COINTELPRO was an FBI operation directed by Hoover, and we only know about it because some people burglarized the FBI office in Media, PA., and they disclosed the information to a press that was then unafraid to disclose it. I could definitely see Kash Patel running an operation like that. The FBI directors are limited to 10 year terms because no one wants another FBI director like Hoover.
Add that the FBI's nasty practice of burglary was also exposed by the Socialist Workers Party lawsuit against the FBI.
Kathy, 10 years or less, given recent history. That position is once again no longer arm's length from the president.
Not agents out in the field whose positions will be shared with Putin who would never be so foolish as to reveal the positions of his agents, or North Korea, or China, or Iran.
Sorry to say Laurie but, if Ca$h Patel is confirmed as FBI director, he is going to employ everyone of them to serve as stormtroopers against his " enemy list ".
Here’s the Wikipedia page on the Sturmabteilung: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
The Brownshirts are coming.
I believe it.
My Proud Boy neighbor down the road, who literally "went postal" 30 years ago at a USPS job, and is on disability and is not allowed to have guns or ammunition, has both. He has been doing target practice in his back woods. What will he be hunting?
I'd suggest reporting him but wonder if it may fall on deaf ears, or he will exact revenge on his neighbors. 😱 And what a fricken scary thought that is.
Thanks Derek.
The same argument about J6 pardoned convicts with respect to the Secret Service would apply to the FBI. It's a fun meme but I can't see it having any basis in reality.
Jon, don't waste your time, nothing coming from them has any basis in reality.
No joke.
I have to believe that even in a Trump administration, anyone with a criminal conviction, even if pardoned, wouldn't be able to get close to being assigned to the Secret Service.
Don't need them, Jon. They are already there, sworn.
Perhaps not, Jon, but they'll be given assignments to intimidate protesters at demonstrations, the homes of Congresspeople who don't comply with Hair Furor, and so on.
Self preservation. See: Caligula. Praetorian Guard.
Rep. Raskin had something to say about this: https://open.substack.com/pub/politicususanews/p/jamie-raskin-demolishes-republicans?r=nnpdg&utm_medium=ios
Thanks for the link, Dave A.
Dave, thanks!
Excellent! Go Raskin!!! Thanks, Dave!
Excellent link, Dave. Thank you!
The Policemen helped to put this bullseye on their backs by endorsing and presumably voting for Trump. They got what they asked for. Of course the rest of us got it too. As for Law and Order, just because they claim it does not make the Republicans the party of Law and Order. In fact, since the Republican party is also the party of lies, what they say tends to patently not be true except when they tell us they want to create terrible laws and policies.
Trump is in the presidency for 2 reasons. Second is to avoid prison, first is to make himself the richest man in the world by openly monetizing the role, and tying himself to dark monies there is going to be no accounting for his wealth from his grifting presidency. I believe he wants to surpass Musk and Putin for wealth, and perhaps to become the first trillionaire.
How do we protect ourselves? Not just at home with militias being given carte blanche to commit violent crimes and murder. What will happen with air travel? Why fire the head of TSA? How will that effect security? Will this person be replaced with someone who wants to change procedures? Trump does not have to worry about the safety of planes he flies in because he and his family will all be flying in private planes.
Spot on, Linda. Another thing that really concerns me is his throttling of medical research and communications to the public about emerging health threats such as Avian Flu and whatever else is coming at us (viral evolution stops for nobody/nothing.)
I'm further concerned about funding for research into human diseases such as cancer. My eldest son was diagnosed nearly 3 years ago with colorectal cancer which has spread to his liver 😪😪😪 and has been participating in clinical trials. The felons actions may not further harm my son, but might deny future cancer patients potentially life-saving cures.
Doug, I am so sorry about your son. That is really hard. I totally agree with you that the health piece of it is concerning. From medical research which we have heard is largely being shut down, to huge implications for the health of all Americans, to the lack of information about diseases.
We read that Georgia was just going to post Avian flu results yesterday but their website are already shut down of the Centers for Disease Control. Also, the website have been scrubbed of information.
In Project 2025 they say that Health and Human Services will become The Department of Life, and pretty much be concerned with policing women's reproduction, and will I fear be tied to the criminal justice system in either you breed against your will, you abstain from sex or you end up in prison, or get the death penalty. That would be a way to get rid of a gender that is clearly hated by this administration.
If they cancel childhood vaccinations I would be moving to another country with young children where these vaccines are still considered normal. It is going to be catastrophic if Polio returns. Plus, as you rightly point out there can be all sorts of new viruses up the turnpike and I would not want to be absent any research into controlling or curing. Again we see the huge effects of the Christian Nationalists, who are setting us up for seeing illness as God's punishment. It is truly unfortunate.
Linda: “The Department of Life”. Irony is officially dead.
'Tis Nazi U.S.A. as per Charles Mingus from fifty years ago. 😱
https://youtu.be/OTRf9Ef6nuA 😵
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7287916064569495552/ 🤢
What Trump just did with the pardons. 🖕
Remember the word "frag?"
Yup
Yep. Ironically, you're going to have to live by the creep's own words: "You're gonna have to fight like hell, or you're not gonna have a country anymore." By next week, Xitter and Facebook will be the official government communication tools, and every medium that doesn't say nice things about Donny-boy will be forbidden. Journalists who publish nasty things about him can expect the Proud Boys on their door steps. Honestly, I really fear for Professor Richardson's life (amongst others)...
Dutch, I fear for us all, one way or another. But threats to the outspoken among us will be chilling. It's the autocratic way of controlling truth and dissent.
It's what Nazis do. But if you compared Trump to Hitler before the election it was always noooo, that's not fair, he isn't like Hitler, we should give him a chance, etc etc (looking sideways at Ricky Return-to-Sender here). Well, here we are. Good luck, Trump voters, let's hope HE gives YOU a chance (probably not).
Yeah, I already returned to Mr. Sender. I enjoy having exchanges with people whose opinion I may not share, but some folks are time wasters — there are some tools and fools out there.
Well one reason is that you are likely to get promoted, like Sean Curran who now leads the secret service.
Trump wants his own brownshirts.
Honestly, anyone that is a member of the Secret Service, FBI, Military, US Government, Capital Police or general PD that supported and voted for Trump knew what they were getting. I am so tired of hearing that these people are surprised, or now they want to speak out. Trump told us all exactly who he was going to be. They just all thought they were Trump whisperers, and we were exaggerating because their perceived social grievances matter more than democracy and rule of law. The Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Trump because he supports unlimited qualified immunity and wants to let them have carte blanche as a backlash to the BLM movement and holding officers accountable. They viewed the tradeoff worth it, they don't get to complain now, I don't want to hear it.
I only have sympathy for Jackson Reffitt and the others like him, who turned in these nutjobs, some of whom may have been family or friends. Their life may be at risk, all of these white supremacists, extremists and domestic terrorists are now going to feel enabled and supported by Trump, and rest assured they are standing by and looking forward to committing more crimes to support him. Which is kind of hilarious because if he wanted to, he could have pardoned them before he left his first term, but he didn't. He has no shame and is more emboldened than he was before.
This just further proves as well that Presidential Pardon power is bullshit and we should work towards a constitutional amendment to get rid of it. Finally, Merrick Garland really failed us, additionally the fact that conservative news outlets, social media outlets and party members aren't speaking out over the fact that the leader of the Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes who wanted to incite a civil war was just casually meeting with lawmakers is just crazy to me. These are not people who mean well or are wanting to engage in being responsible, they want to tear the system down and replace with a social hierarchy built around white supremacy and money. I refuse to lose my country to these bigots.
There are many in law enforcement who individually or as a group through their organizations supported and still support him and the MAGA movement. My brother was a patrolman in the NYPD in the 1970’s .And resigned in disgust after several years of having to deal with his fellow officers who behaved like thugs more interested in the power and their pocket books. He left to work for the US Border Patrol where the agents were more professional and empathic in their duties. There were far fewer agents then but the border was more secure and not so politicized.